Blacking-case



(No Model.)

G. T. MARTIN.

` BLAKING CASE. v I N0. 296,198. Y y w Patented Apr. l, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

GEORGE T. MARTIN, OF SOMERVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO THE BOSTON FANCY CABINET COIWIPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BLACKlNG-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 296,198, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed May 15, 1883. (No model.)

ing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a speciiication, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a strong, serviceable, and cheap boot-blacking case adaptedvto be connected with the wall of a building orhoom, and having a door adapted to be turned down, the said door containing a foot-rest. In this my invention the door is extended below its pivotal point, and. j ust above the said point, but in the box is placed astrong shelf which serves as a stop for the door when in horizontal position, the short end of the door below its pivotal point when open, striking against the under side of the said shelf.

Figure l shows one of my improved cases with the door open, and Fig. 2 shows the same closed, but with the side of the case partially broken out to show the relation of the door pivot, and the shelf which serves as a stop for the door when in horizontal position.

The case A-a rectangular wooden box adapted to be secured to a wall or other fixed part,B, of a room or building by suitable screws, c-is provided with astrong shelf, d, provided at its front edge with a ledge, d?, to prevent the blackingbox from being pushed from the said shelf. The door D, having a suitable catch, e,.has at its edges near its lower end, and just opposite the lower edge of the shelf d, two pins, f-oue at each side-which serve as the pivots for the lever-like door, and the location of these pivots is such that the door turns on centers near the shelf d, so that the short end of the door below the said pivots f, when the door is opened, bears against the under side of the shelf, as shown in Fig. l, the

said shelf acting as a stop for and so as to maintain the door in horizontal position.

The door has attached to it any usual footrest, F,tpreferably of cast metal.

I do not broadly claim a box with a hinged door when employed as a blaching-case; nor do I broadly claim a box adapted to be attached to the Wall.

I am aware that a wall or bracket desk has been made with a door pivoted near its lower end in the sides of the bracket, and capable of being dropped outwardly at an inclination, as usual, to serve as the writingsurface.

I am also aware that a blacking-stand pro vided with a foot-rest has been hinged in the cavity of a wash-stand, so as to be turned in and out of the same.

I am further aware that a blacking-stand has been made with a drawer having a footrest iixed on its bottom, the said drawer being provided With a hinged cover and drop front, and adapted to slide in and out of the stand.

I claim- A blacking-case composed of the box A and strong shelf d therein, and the door D, having the foot-rest F thereon, the said door being pivoted immediately below the front edge ofthe shelf, so that the entire surface of its lower end rests horizontally against the under side of the said shelf to thereby afford a strong and extended support for the projecting end of said door when in use, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE T. WARTIN.

Vitnesses: Y

Jos. P. LIVEEMORE, FEED A. POWELL. 

